Antonios G. Mikos is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. His research focuses on the synthesis, processing, and evaluation of new biomaterials for use as scaffolds for tissue engineering, as carriers for controlled drug delivery, as non-viral vectors for gene therapy, and as platforms for disease modeling. His work has led to the development of novel orthopaedic, dental, cardiovascular, neurologic, and ophthalmologic biomaterials. He is the author of over 710 publications and 33 patents. He is the editor of 15 books and the author of one textbook (Biomaterials: The Intersection of Biology and Materials Science, Pearson, 1st ed., 2008, and 2nd ed., 2023). He has been cited over 110,000 times and has an h-index of 169. He has mentored and supervised 71 Ph.D. students and 42 postdoctoral fellows, 34 of whom remain in academia.

 

Mikos is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Galicia, and the Academy of Athens. He has been recognized by various awards including the Jensen Tissue Engineering Award of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Global, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas, the Founders Award of the Society For Biomaterials, the Founders Award of the Controlled Release Society, the Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award of the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Biomaterials Global Impact Award, and the Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal. He is a Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Tissue Engineering.